Bernard Bailyn

certain impacts of technology on youth such as: 3 “Is modern technology creating a culture of distraction?” by Matthew Ingram, and 4 “Digital Distractions in the Classroom: Student Classroom Use of Digital Devices for Non-Class Related Purposes” by Bernard McCoy. From these articles, we see that there are certainly negative sides to being hooked on to technology such as: being distracted from other joys of life and losing productive time, which our group doesn’t fully…

“Where’s my mother?! I can’t see her!” I hysterically shouted to the clueless chinese taxi driver. I tried to comfort both my sisters by gently telling them everything was going to be fine. I clenched my fists as anxiety washed over me. “Don 't worry,” I whispered in a shaky voice “I 'm sure we are almost there.” It was 1:00 am and the outside world was dark and blinded by fog. After driving through a dark alleyway the taxi came to a halt. Looking around I saw our hotel; The filthy hotel had…

Callum Watt 000873235-3 Soundtrack Analysis - Psycho In the clip that we are provided (known as “The Murder) we are given a very famous and influential scene from one of Alfred Hitchcock's most critically acclaimed films. Bernard Herrmann, the composer for the movie did a sensational soundtrack with a low budget, and even went against Hitchcock’s wishes of the score to be jazz based. With the low budget instead of using an entire orchestra Herrmann only used strings to create an arguably more…

Bernie Madoff, a well-respected financier, conducted one of the most well-known Ponzi schemes. Madoff lured in investors by guaranteeing them unusual high returns. Over several decades, Madoff was able to scam and convince thousands of investors to hand over their savings with a false promise of consistent profits in return. He was eventually caught in December 2008 and was charged with 11 counts of fraud, money laundering, perjury, and theft (Yang). On June 29, 2009, he was sentenced to 150…

Taxi Driver is a 1976 movie directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Julia and Michael Phillips, music by Bernard Hermann. With a great plot and engage music Travis Bickle the main character of story, a , is a lonely and a depressed 26-year-old living in New York City. He is a taxi driver with his chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the city. Travis feel in love with Betsy, a campaign volunteer for Senator and presidential candidate Charles Palantine. Travis succeeds in…

“Fake it ‘til you make it” sadly doesn’t always work, especially when what’s being faked is Jesus’s brother’s ossuary. “Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land” by Nina Burleigh was published in 2008, describes the journey and struggle of validating this ossuary. James Ossuary is the main focus of this book, and all of the experts and millionaires that want to have it in their collection. The story of the discovery, travel, and testing of the ossuary is told…

Citizen Kane is undoubtedly one the world's most famous and highly-rated film. Its use of cinematic techniques, narrative techniques and experimental innovations in the areas of photography, editing, and sound brings the narrative to life and entices our engagement throughout the motion picture. Citizen Kane’s director, star, and producer were all the same genius individual - Orson Welles. Throughout this essay, I will look at such cinematic techniques used in the sequence “Young Charles…

These cold November days in Mississippi are miserable, and i think 1931’s school year was the worst year i’ve ever had.. It had been a long rainy day. I got home from work and began getting some food ready for the children as well as some towels. They all came home soaking wet from them dang buses. The children had to walk to school everyday. Little man didn’t like it because he hated to get dirty, and the buses with all them white kids would think it was the funniest thing to drive extra fast…

Analyzing The Big Short The whole housing market is built like a giant Jenga tower. The AAA mortgages are at the top of the tower while the BBB’s are the lowest base of the tower. The AAA’s and AA mortgages were to make so much money that the extra money was to trickle down to the BBB’s at the base. This information is in the book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine written by Michael Lewis. He has written many best-selling non-fiction books like Moneyball and The Blind Side both were…

This is not the first time Madoff office has been raided by SEC investigators, the recent raid being on 20th April 2005. They wanted to know if Madoff had hedge trade funds or executing hedge trade funds for others as he always claimed. Their investigation was after SEC staffers had found an email that expressed why Renaissance Technologies stopped doing business with Madoff. Initially, examiners claimed they were just on a normal routine examination of the brokerage firm’s books and records. On…